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A Reflection from Indigenous People’s Day
Traditions from Indigenous American Peoples teach us to think about our interactions with natural resources as relationships rather than competitive advantages.
Lawmakers Call Out Big Tech’s Attacks on FTC Chair Kahn as ‘Illogical and Inconsistent’
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Kahn accused by Facebook and Amazon CEOs of showing bias in her efforts to highlight the firms’ anticompetitive practices.
Ethics by Design: Culture Management
A Guide to Managing Your Culture for Ethics
Six methods for leading an organization to achieve ethical outcomes by making decisions with the consideration of others, meaning various stakeholders, in mind.
Cultural Humility: A Leadership Virtue
Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive Culture Grounded in Employee Experience
Direction for the development of the workplace virtue known as cultural humility, defining employee experience, and identifying competencies that can be used to cultivate skills in the workforce with suggestions about how these can be woven into the intentional management and integration of corporate culture.
Money Talks: It Says we Don’t Share Well
Rises in the gap between c-suite executive and frontline worker pay have grown exponentially, while the rest of the world is suffering through a pandemic.
Practicing Humility to Turn Back Hate
We, as individuals, require humility, kindness, and action to achieve any semblance of solidarity with those facing hate.
Robinhood: Legend or Fairy Tale? It’s Important That we can Tell the Difference
Businesses that serve consumers and other businesses simultaneously often involve conflicted interests, and require regulation to reconcile these conflicts.
The Consequences of Unethical Leadership … and Followership
The consequences of Trump’s rhetoric and his followers’ actions manifested themselves in the nation’s capital on January 6, 2021.
5 Traits of Organizations that use Tech Responsibly
As new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing and blockchain become mainstream, and their practical uses more pervasive, myriad new business opportunities will be created.
The Three Imperatives of Teaching During the Pandemic: An Ethicist Weighs In
How to keep students front and center
A global pandemic has challenged educators immeasurably, while at the same time giving them the chance to show their creativity and how seriously they take their commitment to young people.